Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British charity that offers medical services in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, and advocates for Palestinians' rights to health and dignity. It is in special consultative status with ECOSOC since 2002.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works in partnership with Palestinian communities to uphold their rights to health and dignity. We do this by developing effective, sustainable and locally-led healthcare services, providing medical aid during emergencies, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.
MAP History
Between 16 and 18 September 1982, Lebanese Phalangist militants entered the Beirut refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, and killed and injured hundreds of unarmed Palestinian and other civilians inside. The camp’s residents were defenceless.
The Israeli army, who had invaded Lebanon earlier that year and had surrounded the camp, had full knowledge of what was taking place inside, yet they never intervened. Instead, they illuminated the camp throughout the night by flares launched into the sky from helicopters and mortars.
Working in a hospital inside the camp at the time was a young orthopaedic surgeon from London, Dr Swee Chai Ang. Refusing to leave the hospital, Dr Ang worked tirelessly to save the injured and protect her patients during the massacre.
On her return to London, Dr Ang joined with fellow medical professionals and humanitarians to establish Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), in order to send doctors and nurses to work in the Palestinian refugee camps and provide frontline care.
MAP today
Since then, MAP has been working with Palestinian communities, to deliver locally-led health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement.
Today we have offices in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, Lebanon and London. With our extensive local knowledge and experience, we work closely with communities, hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers to coordinate care and medical aid even where there are severe restrictions on access.
MAP provides immediate medical aid to those in need at times of crisis, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.
We are also committed to speaking out against injustices that prevent Palestinians from fully enjoying their rights to health and dignity, and campaign to ensure the voices of Palestinians impacted by occupation, displacement and conflict are heard at the highest levels.
Mutual aid for Palestine and Gaza: https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donation-details/484 
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Via Al Jazeera's live blog:
We went through hell coming through here’: US citizen at Rafah crossing
Al Jazeera has spoken to a US citizen who was among a group of dual-citizens in Gaza’s Rafah seeking to cross into Egypt. They said they had been advised to travel to the crossing by their governments, but have been unable to cross:
“I am a US citizen, my country told me to come here. We went through hell coming through here. It’s like a war zone coming from the middle of Gaza to the border of Gaza. And now we’re going home empty-handed.
“We don’t know what’s going on, why we were told to come and when are we gonna get out of here. It’s hopeless.
“My message is to Secretary Blinken. If we were Israelis, would this happen to us? We’re standing here, we don’t know what’s going to happen. One single shell could kill everybody standing here.
“My other message is to President Biden. We are people. We bleed. Our blood is red, not black, not purple. We bleed just like they bleed. And I ask him, if one of your kids in your family did something bad … would you punish the whole family?
“This is like punishing Palestinians for living in Palestine, period.”
Iran has warned Israel to immediately halt its “war crimes” against Gaza or it could face “a huge earthquake” of resistance.More than 320 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, including many women and children killed in Israeli air raids on convoys fleeing Gaza City, according to health officials.